Maenth
The Thirteen Provinces
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Posted - 2016.08.11 21:01:54 -
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This is actually a very fair and sensible idea, considering the current war mechanics.
If corporations can pay CONCORD to let them attack other capsuleers regardless of whether or not they have a good reason (like paying the police to say it's okay for you to steal someone's car) then corporations should also be allowed to pay CONCORD to be protected against such nonsense.
The RISK in that case is that the corp would have to pay for a 'protection' period where possibly nobody would want to declare war on them, effectively wasting their ISK. Of course they would still be vulnerable to suicide ganking.
While everyone likes to say that PvP and hisec wars are entirely content creation, for many quiet people it's also content destruction. There's still lots of players who just like building and hauling, and either before or after they lose a ship to the war their mentality becomes "well, I guess I'm not playing EVE for a week or two"
Regardless of what we think about such fragile players they are still paying customers to the game, and in some way they're contributing to the EVE universe with their activities. When those people feel like they're bullied too much and leave the game, then EVE player count declines and activity is reduced and CCP business suffers and thus EVE development suffers.
So, I really think this would be a positive addition to the game. Not everybody will buy CONCORD war protection all the time, so merc corps and hunters can easily just find another target like they do anyway. It would be a small loss for war corps but a massive boon to some industrial corps, while also providing another ISK sink to the game. Then, if 'too many' people use the protection feature, then CCP can just increase the cost of protection to reduce its use to a level they're okay with.
Drones. Drones are a means to an end. An end to the ruthless Caldari 'progress' machines. An end to the barbaric 'redemption' proposed by the Amarr. What they see as chaos shall be my perfect order, merely beyond their comprehension.
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